Ryan Foerster PR - Abrons Arts Center

Ryan Foerster
UNDERWROUGHT AN DE RE
Sept. 16 - Oct. 23
Opening Reception Sept. 26 | 7 - 9pm
Abrons Arts Center is pleased to present UNDERWROUGHT AN DE RE - a solo
project by New York based artist Ryan Foerster in our ground floor lobby gallery.
Forester's recent work in photography and sculptural assemblage using found air
ducts and experimental body casting speaks to the increasing anxiety about what
to do with commercial waste and how something as simple as breathing clean air
is fraught with contradictions.
from the artist:
"last show I did in new yok the gallery was still getting built out. clearing in
bushwicl. it was November getting cold almost winter and air ducts were still
getting installed for heat. it was a mess trying to install tha show and have guys
wqokring above you to install the ducts. it finally finished and then there was
problem connecting the air ducts to the furncace. so no heat for the intire show.
the guys installing rth air ducts were not from far by . its I had walked by it before
and saw the scraps that were used for making the duct.s . I got a sheet from
them tthinkign ity could beintersted to add presvious works to in making an anew
narrative a borad of thought sorts. past and present. not work but ende d as a
table top. but really I got some pieves from there garbage. there all folded up
overlapping. id rather be outside any day then iside. I get stir crazy I d rasher rain
cold heat to being in some fucked up a regulated temperature. casino air is crazy
its kinda amazing its so messed up. Ill feel said that after all these years were
inside using these giant metal forms to bring us air at different tempatures to
keep us comforatbel. I hate comfort its to easy. id rather it be hard and that we
have to adapt to the way things are actually. I guesss well have to figure out a
way to adapt to the wats the planet is changing. eached a point in the work I was
making and thinking and about the environment and how I could be a more
considerate indivualy on this plant.e . I was sick of waste and all this excess
white shit that was here. he got the presents and spent half the time with eh
packafgaing / of the box more exciting then the actiaul toys. when I cant sleep I
feel like I cant breathe not. likeim begin choked by a cop but created by myself
out of my own nerves. I find comfort in thinking about how temporary everything
is. other plantes the entire universe. thayel the yer were just some fleas
annoying a dog. slwolwy nagging at its insidious . a constant harrasmant to it. ill
get caught up in my head shit snow balling. tthen fall back asleep. ha well I might
as well have some fun casue weall fuck, we cant breath the air anytmore . stocks
are up and down. im being attacked by doiriots bags every time I swim. go have
un. I relax. I can laught it s off .its brings me back down grounded what to do in
my owne ligfe to contune on. this is all going so fast. it was easier when were
messed up . plowing ahed. not so concerned. its not that I want to ignore it or that
I think I can really change anything ., cwould protesting more gelp. on my
birthday I bt the times, post and dai news. it’s a rally guiuly pleasire to read so
much news. I like how same stories get told fiddfernt. things re arrganged . I run
on the boardwalk till my hio hurts im getting old. clogged ers warsists and joints
all so fast. I see wht tomaotos plants start from seeds. grown green tall fast
change barring. dropping on ground with the weight. drying up yellow. it makes
me want to. maybe the plante is suppose to chsange this way. waljth is way."
-Ryan Foerster
Ryan Foerster b. 1983 Newmarket Canada. Lives and works New York.
Previous solo shows include “Racoon Trap” at the National Exemplar NY 2015,
Hannah Hoffman LA 2015, CLEARING NY 2014 and “NYT Trap” Shoot the
Lobster, Vietnam. group shows include “The Sun Placed in the Abyss” Columbus
Museum of Art 2016, “Pièces-Meublés” organized by Bob Nickas, Galerie Patrick
Seguin - Paris 2016, “Second Chances” Aspen Art Museum, Colorado
2015, “Part Picture” organized by Chris Wiley, Museum of Contemporary
Canadian Art, Toronto 2015, “the Material Image” organized by Debra Singer,
Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York 2014, “Rockaway!” organized by MOMA
PS1, Rockaway Beach Surf Club, New York 2014, “9th Shanghai Biennale”
Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai 2012 and “Millennium Magazines”, Museum of
Modern Art Library, NY 2012. curatorial projects include “Silvianna Goldsmith”
White Columns, NY 2014, “LOCUM” ribordy contemporary, Geneva 2014,
and “Another, Once Again, Many Times More” Martos Gallery, NY 2014. Foerster
was the recipient of the Artadia/ NADA award in 2013 and received a Pollock
Krasner foundation grant in 2012. He also founded RATSTAR in 2013.
Abrons Arts Center 466 Grand Street NY, NY